Underwater eruption!

For the first time ever, scientists were able to film a volcano erupting underwater. Because of the extreme pressure (at 4,000 feet below sea level!) they could get quite close to it. Crazy!

Video of it here:

and article about it here: CNN

Clever animals...

Octopi and ravens are damn smart animals. Check out this article on the BBC about how Octopi use coconut shells to make houses:

Octopi

and how crows can use tools, some of which they make on their own:

Betty the crow
Betty the crow 2
Using 3 tools

Netflix Instant Play

If you have Netflix, the following are very interesting/fun intant-play titles (or at least are at time of writing). These may change. But put 'em in your queue if interested anyway!

The Botany of Desire

David Attenborough's The Life of Birds

Blue Planet Series

Digging for the Truth

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

The Yes Men

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Nova: Extreme Ice

400 Years of the Telescope

Nova: Absolute Zero

The Spy Factory

Welcome to Mars

Art 21: Art in the 21st Century series

Atheism Tapes series

Penn & Teller Bullshit series

Egypt's Golden Empire

In Search of Myths and Heroes

Frontline: Growing up Online

Indie Sex series

The Human Face

The Dark Ages

Humbolt County

2 Days in Paris

Ape to Man

American Experience: We Shall Remain

Imaginary Witness

Pineapple Express

Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers

Super High Me

Simpsons Medical

13'16 Page Link

In this episode from season 13, Homer gets medical. Hilarious! (The embed works. You just have to give it a little buffer time.)

Techno love

Here are some of my current fav techno tracks...

Kaskade - Sorry (Dirty South Remix)

Royksopp - Triumphant

Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin

Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Chillout Mix)

The Engine Room - A Perfect Lie (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)

Bodyrox feat. Luciana - What Planet You On (Deadmau5 Mix)

A little lit of a break from the others, but I just enjoy this song, however pop-ish it is.
Cobra Starship - Good Girls Go Bad (feat. Leighton Meester)

Photosynth

Here's a TED talk about the latest developments with Microsoft's Photosynth. It's a whole new crazy way to display geographic slideshows that integrates all of the images into a 3D environment.



You can play with it yourself here: Photosynth

Vinni Puh!

Check out this episode of Winnie the Pooh from Soviet Russia. It's all so Kandinsky-like. And as Pooh often does, asks some deep philosophical questions... Totally trippy!

Basement Jaxx

Very curious video of a pretty chill song...

Google Wave

You may have heard about Google wave, and how they're trying to re-invent email. I have received an invitation to the beta, so I'm trying it out, and it's pretty damn cool. Here is a nice video that explains why:

How the new media has changed us...

Factoids that will BLOW YOUR MIND.



This very site is an example.

Gaga has done it again...

Her costume designer is insane. And I love it. Totally trippy.

Sand Drawing

This is from Ukraine's Got Talent. A very cool and intense sand painting.

Google Suggests...

This site logs the crazy things that google will suggest based on some non-specific search terms. Hilarious!!

http://googlelolz.com/

Falling Sand Game

An excellent time wasting game. Enjoy!

Falling Sand Game

Will it Blend?

Just in case you haven't been before... Will it Blend?

Chemistry Safety!

Who else watched these before starting chemistry lab?? Hilarious and 80s.

Scupturific!

Here is a collection of some of my favorite kinetic / musical sculptures!



A Singing wind tree!


Moving floating balls at the BMW museum (Keith should recognize this).




And my favorite Theo Jansen, who makes sculptures that move in lifelike ways, and are even designed to live out in the environment on their own.

Andy Goldsworthy

One of my favorite artists. A nature-loving Scot who creates beautiful patterns using things he finds around him. Rocks, leaves, sticks, and ice.

Look through lots of pictures here: Google Image

One of my favorites is a 'sculpture' where he just splayed out on the ground before a light rain:

La Roux - Bulletproof

A fabulous and trippy music video by La Roux. I love the hair.

This is also a good remix of a song of hers:

La Roux- I'm not your toy (JACK BEATS REMIX) by Jack Beats

Omg. Soooo high!

They have almost finished the Burj Dubai complex. It is NUTS.

Here are some videos:

panorama of downtown

high up window cleaning

view from the top

the fountain in the lake (worth watching through)

silly discovery show (from 2008, it's bigger now)

the lobby and elevator of the burj al arab (sailboat looking hotel nearby)

official site and wikipedia

The Vortex in Lake Peigneur

In the 1980s, a gulf oil drilling company was drilling a hole in a lake in Louisiana and just happened to drill into a big salt mine that was underneath. This basically opened a vortex that caused the lake to entirely empty into the mine, sucked in a large area of land around the lake, and make the gulf flow north onto land for two days in a giant 150 ft waterfall (the photo above). That would be a thing to see.

Read about it here: Damn Interesting
Or watch about it here: Youtube

Death Valley

The Milky Way Over Death Valley

Death Valley is a crazy place. Once at the bottom of a lake, it's now a below sea-level hot hot oven of a place. Read more on wiki here.

Death Valley

Parks Service Photo Gallery

Rocks mysteriously move around some of the mudflats, leaving trails behind them. These researchers have a theory for why:

The Maya! (Shout out to Kiri!!)

Nova did a great special about how they managed to decipher the mayan language. CRAZY. About an hour. A good watch.

On HULU

Infinity

I'm just really grooving to this right now.

Feel gravity by taking a bath!

A bath can be a lovely thing, when in an 'altered' mood. I recommend once you're done, lay back in the bath, and let the water drain around you. The pull of gravity increases as your buoyancy in the water decreases. It's a reaally weird feeling.

Have a google Earth Experience

Think of a place that was really important in your life, but you haven't been to in a while. Go to that place in Google Earth, and do streetview, and wander around. See what memories come up! Amazing way to experience a vivid drive down memory lane.

The Future is Now! Wireless Electricity

Soon we may have wireless electricity:

Ted Conference

Time Shift

Here are some amazing slow motion videos:

Popcorn
Water Balloon
Lighter
Grenade
Lightning

And here are some cool time lapse videos:

Sky
Seedling

REMIX

Radiohead, in their infinite genius, set up sites that allow you to get the basic tracks for their songs for free, and then you can remix them as you please. Then listeners can vote on the best ones. Here is the link to the site for remixing Reckoner. There is also one for Nude.

I like what Mike Genius Rubber did for Reckoner. Took it to a whole new place.

A New Kind of Cloud

This year, sky-gazers have noted a kind of cloud previously unsubscribed in Cloud Atlases. It is being considered as a new entry in the list of types of clouds observed around the planet. It is known as Undulatus Asperatus, because of its wavy form. It's basically a layer formed between warmer/cooler and drier/wetter air. Craazy!

Undulatus Asperatus

PEPCON EXPLOSION

Amazing explosion caught on film. In 1988 a facility holding a lot of jet fuel exploded and was caught on film. Read about it here:

Damn Interesting

and watch the explosion here:

YouTube

Of course no explosion will ever be as big as the Tsar Bomb which happened here and more can be read here.

The future is now!

Details are coming out about a dual screen computer from Microsoft that will act like a super fancy planner, with wireless capabilities, a camera, touch screens, and writing recognition software. The concept video is kind of amazing.

Look at it here

We Are Electric

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. But it sure is trippy in good Fischerspooner style. Enjoy this music video. Especially in HD.

We Are Electric by Fischerspooner

Boohbah!

Enjoy this website intended for toddlers. Perfect place for those in altered states to play.

Boohbah Zone

TED

HOURS could be spent perusing the many lectures on TED, one of the most diverse and intellectually stimulating conference series I know of. This one I found particularly interesting, because it marries my loves (neuroscience & nirvana).

GagaLicious

I don't know what drugs she's on, but I want some. Look at this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQJ9Vi8GLok

Old Ironsides

So. Some things last for a long time. Some of these things played major roles in history. One such thing is the USS Constitution, a boat built in 1797, which still sails around the US as like a living museum. This ship was critical in the war of 1812. Amazing that it's still going. Think of all the people who have been on board this boat. Read lots more here: USS Constitution

An idea

Check out these sites, links, videos, songs, stories after having some waffles. And enjoy.